Pea huller and cleaner.



No. 653,874. Patented .luly l7, I900.

E. D. MORRIS.

UNI-TED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDMOND DARLING MORRIS, OF NASHVILLE, GEORGIA.

PEA HU LLER AND 'CLTEANER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 653,874, dated July 17,1900.

Application filed October 12, 1899. Serial No. 733,370. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDMOND DARLING Moa- RIS, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Nashville, in the county of Berrien and State ofGeorgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in PeaHullers and Cleaners; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

This invention relates to pea hullers and cleaners, and has for itsobject the provision of an improved hand-operated machine of simple anddurable construction, adapted to perform its offices in ahighly-satisfactory manner with the expenditure of a comparatively smallamount of energy on the part of the operative, but more particularly toprovide a novel form of cover for the hullingdrum, which can be easilyremoved or placed in position to give ready access to the drum andhulling-breast for purposes of repair or cleaning.

The invention is embodied in a machine comprising certain improvedfeatures and novel combinations of parts set forth in detail hereinafterand pointed out in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a longitudinal section, dottedlines representing the belt and pulleys; Fig. 2, a detail view of thehulling breast and drum, and Figs. 3 and 4 detail views of the cover andimproved fastenings.

The frame 1 is provided with an inclined chute or table 2, down whichthe peas are fed to the hulling mechanism. Thehulling chamber or box hasa semicircular bottom provided with a transverse discharge-slot 3 in itsbottom, which provides the two breasts 4 and 5, the latter havinghulling pins or teeth 6, arranged in continuous rows transversely andvertically at suitable distances apart. The breast 4 is not providedwith pins, as they are unnecessary at this point. A suitable blower orfan 7 is provided in a casing 8, from which the air is blown across thespace below the discharge-slot, which separates the hulls from the peas,the latter falling to the ground and the former being blown off at oneside,

The hulling-drum 9 is provided with joun nals 10, which turn insemibearings 11 on the frame, thus permitting the drum to be easilylifted out whenever necessary. On one journal is a band-pulley 12 andcrank 13, and a belt 14 connects said pulley to a pulley 15 on the fanor blower. The drum is provided with hulling pins or teeth 16, arrangedin circumferentially and transversely disposed rows, which are sopositioned as to pass between the vertical rows of teeth on thehulliug-breast,th us insuring the proper stripping of the bulls from thepeas and the cleansing thereof.

The improved cover employed has side pieces 17 having curved orsemicircular tops and provided with projections 18, which have squaredends or shoulders 19, adapted to abut snugly against the squared ends ofthe side boards of the inclined chute; A curved sheet-metal top 20 issecured to the upper edges of the side pieces 17 and has its endsanchored or secured by cleats 21 and 22, fastened to the side pieces,the cleat 22 having its ends resting on the projections 18, thusproviding a mouth 23 for the entrance of the peas to the hulling-box.'On the frame are fasteners 24, having upright portions, which are sunkinto the ends of the side boards of the inclined chute, and horizontalportions, which are adapted to enter apertures 25 in the shoulders 19. IThe numeral 26 designates a removable screw on the frame, which isreceived in a depression 27 in cleat 21. By unloosening this screw thecover can be removed bodily, giving access to the hulling mechanism; butwhen the fasteners are fitted in the cover and the screw is in positionthe cover is very secure and houses the operative parts and prevents thepeas from fly ing out.

In operating the machine the crank is turned, which sets the drum andfan in rotation. The teeth strip the hulls from the peas and clean them,and both hulls and peas fall through the slot, to be met by a strongblast of air from the fan, which insures a proper separation.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

In a pea boiler and cleaner, the combination with a hulling-box andhulling-drum cover, and another fastening consisting of a therein, of afeed-chute leading to the box removable screw'for holding the cover inpoand having its side boards provided with I sition and in engagementwith the fastenings squared shoulders at their ends next the box,aforesaid.

5 acover for the drum and box having a mouth In testimony whereof Iaflix my signature [5 or opening to receive the peas from the chute inpresence of two Witnesses.

and provided with shoulders which abut the EDMOND DARLING MORRIS.shoulders on the side boards, fastenings at Witnesses: theshoulders ofthe side boards which have J. H. GASKIN,

1o projecting portions entering holes in the J. P. KNIGHT.

